“Senator Obama doesn’t understand” …

Now they’re talking Afghanistan and Pakistan. McCain is playing his experience card hard here. Obama countering with yeah, but your judgment was wrong.

McCain calls Obama out for saying he would attack Pakistan. “You don’t do that. You don’t say that out loud.” You do things if you have to do things, if you’re president, but keep it on the down-low. We’re paraphrasing here.

Yes, Johnny Mac said, Obama is calling for more troops, “But what he doesn’t understand is that it has to be a new strategy.” McCain name-checks a place in Afghanistan that he’s been.

Decent line from Obama: “Coming from you, who’s called for the extinction of North Korea and singing songs about bombing Iran” is lame.

For the second time, McCain trots out the line “I don’t think Sen. Obama understands” — an attempt to show the younger man’s inexperience.

Back in 1983, Ronald Reagan wanted to send Marines into Lebanon. McCain notes how he opposed that. Talks about his Vietnam experience. “I know how hard it is for an army to be defeated.”

Now they’re comparing bracelets they’ve received of U.S. servicemen who died. Obama said: “It is not true that you have been consistently concerned about Afghanistan.”

McCain fires back: “You might think that with that kind of concern, Sen. Obama would have gone to Afghanistan.” Ouch. Then he said “I don’t think Sen. Obama understands” again.